Showrunner Kerry Ehrin also discusses the season premiere's time jump, a new Mother and final season homage. By Amber Dowling [Warning: This article contains spoilers from the season five premiere ...

PHOTOS: Meet the Residents of A&E’s ‘Psycho’ Prequel ‘Bates Motel’ The idea of the show, which A&E bypassed the pilot stage and picked up straight to series, will be how Norman becomes ...

There's the iconic vertical house looming above the squat motel, and that iconic stairway that was a scene of death in the 1960 film. And Norman's ultimate fate hovers over the entire story.

Hello, Psycho! Bates Motel, A&E’s exploration of the early years of notorious madman Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore), begins to intersect with Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1960 film ...

Highmore goes a little ‘Psycho’ as ‘Bates Motel’ starts second season. By Piya Sinha-Roy. March 8, 2014 at 9:18 p.m. EST.

We all know about Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror movie, "Psycho" (1960). Norman Bates and his twisted motel of horrors are embedded in popular culture - visitors to Universal Studios Hollywood even ...

Watching "Bates Motel" is a fairly awkward experience. But the new series, a prequel of sorts to Alfred Hitchcock's film "Psycho, manages to hook the viewer despite its strangeness. The pilot episode ...

“Bates Motel” is not quite a prequel, though it acts like one. Set in the modern day, it follows a 17-year-old Norman (Freddie Highmore) through events that, we assume, will eventually turn ...

Bates Motel is already well on its way to a Psycho Season 5. The end of Season 4 finally featured the inevitable death of Norma Bates at the hand of her son Norman.

HitFix's Alan Sepinwall reviews "Bates Motel," the new A&E drama about the teenage years of "Psycho" killer Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) and his controlling mother Norma (Vera Farmiga).

“Psycho,” Alfred Hitchock’s 1960 thriller, had very strong Freudian currents running through it. So it’s not surprising that its new prequel series on A&E is steeped in what we’d now ...

Highmore, 22, plays a teenage version of Norman Bates who helps his erratic mother run a hotel in modern-day Oregon in the A&E series "Bates Motel," which returns for a second season on Monday.